There’s a good chance you and I have many similarities when it comes to our digital life. We are all over the place. One minute we are checking our Gmail, the next we are responding to direct messages through Twitter. Then oh wait! You realize you have several messages to respond too on Facebook. And what about those RSS Feeds you wanted to read? And this doesn’t even count work related stuff. Oh man! Recently I have taken action on 4 specific things that have helped me “minimalize” my digital life tremendously. I have saved time, energy, and distraction all the while continuing to accomplish the things each day that I wanted to. Let me share with you what I did. 1. Turned Off Facebook Email Notifications A simple setting in your Facebook account settings, when turned off keeps you from getting all those emails from Facebook about “so and [...]

Update: 11/04/2010 Over the past few months I have starting to purchase my CSS Templates from Themeforest.net instead of DreamTemplate.com. ThemeForest templates cost around $12 on average and their templates are either just as good or better. They also have a much bigger selection to choose from as well as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal templates. Dreamtemplate.com offers over 300 free templates, and access to thousands of premium templates for $59.95. They are basically another provider of website templates on the Internet. The one thing I like about dreamtemplate.com is that they give you a different collection of templates than what you will find on other template sites such as Template Monster. If you are in the market to spend a few bucks and purchase a template for a particular website, then I recommend checking out dreamtemplate.com and seeing what they have to offer. Tip: One thing that I do is [...]

Spacegallery is a plugin for JQuery that gives you yet another cool option for displaying your images on a website. It displays the images in a sort of cool space effect where each image comes after the next appearing right in front of you. Here’s a screenshot: Spacegallery is free to download from the link I provided above. It’s fairly easy to implement as well. Details for finding out how to implement are made clear on the website. This could be a cool way to display a portfolio of some kind! Just an Idea! CodeCanyon.net has a ton of Jquery and Javascript Image Gallery scripts similar to this one for anywhere between $5-$10 per script. If this image gallery doesn’t do it for you… you may want to check it out over there.

Many of you i’m sure are accustomed to dealing with many of the open source ecommerce/shopping cart applications and might understand what i’m about to explain to you. It’s so hard to find any good free templates/themes for any of these ecommerce applications. Most of them, especially OScommerce and Zen Cart are absolutely hideous looking right out of the box. Free Ecommerce Theme from CSS Creme CSS creme has put together a free CSS ecommerce template that looks pretty nice. It’s simple and coded together well so that you can customize it and use your imagination on top of what is already put together. If you are using an open source application like me, you will need to apply this template to your theme and make your customizations. But I know with me that this will save me some serious time on a few projects of mine. Instead of recreating [...]

Are you looking for a free solution to a Javascript Image Rotator? I have been looking for this lately and found something that I think you all will enjoy using. It’s called the JW Image Rotator and it’s from jeroenwijering.com. For a recent project I needed a quick, good looking solution to a Image Rotator with a cool transition without needing flash. I came across this and it worked perfectly for me. Installation Instructions Download the JW Image Rotator from the website. The rotator download ZIP contains all you need to get started. First, transfer the imagerotator.swf and imagerotator.xml file from the ZIP to your website. Also upload all photos you want to show to your site. Second, change the imagerotator.xml file so that it contains the titles, links and image urls of your images. You can use a simple text editor for that. If you want to add more [...]

These commercials are awesome! They are the new DirecTV commercials featuring the actor from “The Break Up”. He was the brother of Jennifer Aniston’s character in the movie. These commercials are a perfect spoof on corporate America. I love it! I know this isn’t typical of a blog post here on ChaseSagum.com, but everyone needs some humor now and again.